Dan Degnan, of Southside Comics, recently tweeted some statistics for 2019. https://twitter.com/dan_degnan/status/1213319824140623872?s=21 Gross Sales were up 14.96% while Expenses increased by 5.67%. Growth was largely due to the webstore with a small in-store bump. As with most stores, their top selling comic was Detective Comics #1. And Southside also had…
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X-Men titles top comic charts at Challengers; 25 out of top 100 graphic novels are all ages
Challengers Comics, in Chicago, Illinois recently posted their top 100 selling comics and 100 selling graphic novels for the 2019. Some observations: KID GLOVES was their top-selling graphic novel! Challengers had an creator event for it. In fact, 5 Graphic Novels in the Top 39 are books they had creator…
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Dog Man and Guts lead the pack at Flying Colors for 2019
Flying Colors Comics and Other Cool Stuff, of Concord, California recently released sales information for 2019. The majority of the top 10 selling graphic novels, first released in 2019, were non-superhero books aimed at kids. Dogman Vol 7 and Guts by Raina Telgemeier were the top 2 selling graphic novels…
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How Did Direct Market Stores perform in 2019?
In the next two weeks, ComicsPROgress will be writing various articles about the 2019 comic industry. We will be highlighting various stores and linking to their blog, twitter, and social media announcements. ARTICLES – SALES RESULTS 2019Challenger’s Comics – Patrick BrowerFlying Colors – Joe Field South Side Comics – Dan…
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Comic Stores! Time to register for Local Comic Shop Day.
PRESS RELEASEFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Marco DavanzoComicsPRO (949) 387-9599 marco@comicspro.org LOCAL COMIC SHOP DAY® RETAILER REGISTRATION NOW OPENFifth Annual Event on for Saturday November 23 (August 31, 2019) – Local Comic Shop Day®, the day celebrating the independent spirit of local comic book shops, returns for its fifth annual event on Saturday, November…
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ComicsPROgress has just added a Knowledge Base!
NEW INFORMATION SOURCE! ComicsPROgress has set up a KNOWLEDGE BASE. (A repository of information for comic book stores to help them save money, increase sales, and run more efficiently). Members asked us to provide an online repository of information at one of our last meetings. The KNOWLEDGE BASE will have…
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Free Comic Book Day 2019
Free Comic Book Day was founded in 2002 by ComicsPRO member, and former board member, Joe Field, owner of Flying Colors Comics & Other Cool Stuff in Concord, CA, who saw the success of Baskin Robbins’ free ice cream day, and saw it as a great opportunity to bring in new customers…
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